Improvement in stocking-supporter clasps



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RACHEL EBERLE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN STOCKING-SUPPORTER CLASPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 155,863, dated October 13, 1874; application filed June 27, 1874.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Mrs. RACHEL EBERLE, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Stocking Supporter Catch, of which the following is a specification:

This invention consists of a new and improved device for attaching supporters to the stockings of children, youths, and grown-up people.

In the drawing, Figure l illustrates the invention, showing the same as when applied to the person. Fig. 2 is a section of Fig. l, 3, taken on the line .x Fig. 3 is a front view of the fastener.

`Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts.

This invention applies specially to the catch which takes hold of the stockin g, which catch is attached to the end of the supporting-strap. The stocking-supporter, as a whole, is nothing new, but usually the stocking has been attached by a simple button on the end of the strap and a button-hole in the top of the stock ing. It is a trouble to make these botton-holes in every pair of new stockings, and my improvement is, in the catch which obviates the necessity of botton-holes or bottons.

a is the catch. b is the strap to which the catch is attached by means of the suspending straps c c, with the belt d, which encircles the waist, and is fastened in front by means of a buckle or in any suitable manner. Theocatch a is attached to the strap b by means of a loop formed by the ornamental adjustingslide e. To the band i of the catch is xed the slide f. This slide is made of a single piece of wire, the ends of which clasp the band i, as seen'at g g. The center is bent down and turned, so as to form a triangle, h. When the slide is slipped up the top of the stocking K is drawn under the triangle, as seen in Fig. 2, and when the slide is pushed down the stocking will be griped between the triangle and the lower end of the band t', and securely held. The strap may be shortened or lengthened by means of the adjusting-slide e, according to the length of the stocking. This attachment is made in a moments time without puncturing or defacing the stocking in any manner.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The catch a i, havin g the triangular turn h at the bottom, in combination with the slide f, as shown and described, for the purpose specified.

RACHEL EBERLE. .Yitiiesses:

T. B. MosnER, ALEX. F. ROBERTS. 

